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If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
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If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
...then, what could a god do that would be absolutely impossible to replicate with sufficiently advanced technology?
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
Silly question for the religion forum, as theists generally don't consider their god's actions to be magic. It's atheists who term it such. IMO God understands the mechanics of what he does.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
(May 10, 2013 at 1:55 pm)Ryantology Wrote: ...then, what could a god do that would be absolutely impossible to replicate with sufficiently advanced technology?

Except for some vague fabrications in genesis, How has god alledgedly impressed the yokels of old and new testiment, or even the yokels of christain miracles since, that we can't replicate with theatrics and psychology, and only barest minimum application of technology?

Come to think of it, if we meet the yokels of genesis, it would be pretty damned easy for us to impress them with some crudest of smoke and mirrors first and then a totally different genesis story.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
Create you and me, so you could post this silly question ? and I can give you the obvios answer !
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
Why the fuck would we want to create YOU?
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(May 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm)goodnews Wrote: Create you and me, so you could post this silly question ? and I can give you the obvios answer !

We can certainly make you think some rediculous thing we pulled out of our ass created you, just like the bible did. In fact it would be amongst the easiest of all the frauds in the bible to perpetrate, because for biblical yokels and Christian morons, it is even easier to believe in a big lie, like "created everything including you", than a smaller one, like "rose from the dead".
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
If sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then sufficiently advanced technology and magic are the same thing.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
(May 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm)John V Wrote: If sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then sufficiently advanced technology and magic are the same thing.


Indeed, the holy writs of Iron Age and the confidence frauds of our age are the same thing.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
(May 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm)John V Wrote: If sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then sufficiently advanced technology and magic are the same thing.

Not true. Magic, by definition, is a supernatural occurrence. It would be something against the laws of physics. Sufficiently developed technology just looks that way to those who don't know of the technology
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana

"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin


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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
(May 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm)Raven Wrote: Not true. Magic, by definition, is a supernatural occurrence. It would be something against the laws of physics.
You mean like appearing in two places at the same time or instantaneous communication without interaction or effects preceding their causes. That stuff never happens in physics.
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